AI is just marketing language to make algorithms look cool so companies, universities, and researchers can get funding. "Science" is becoming more and more about hype, marketing, and money than about actual knowledge. Not sure if it's better or worse than it being driven by ego and prestige, though.

It's all written by human beings, fed data into its database by human beings -- and that data was produced by human beings.

Yes, I've been around computers since they came out. I've seen some very impressive software. All written by human beings created in God's image (having Intellect and Free Will). Computers will never have either.

Computers are determined by the next machine opcode instruction and/or the data they are processing. And they certainly have no soul, consciousness, or "ghost in the machine".

AI is a misleading buzzword. It's all still software that needs human beings to write it, train it, maintain it, feed it. It will never be otherwise.

So Google isn't using any of their famous "AI" to help them do real work, like keep an eye on websites they put advertising on?

You basically could have a website "All about Latin" with tons of Latin language on it, and yet if someone used the Latin preposition "cuм" (as in "Una cuм"), the page will trigger a violation "Adult or sɛҳuąƖ Content" that the site owner has to fix. That's why CathInfo has to mangle that word, which breaks many URLs of course.

Yeah, AI is pretty stupid. Fast, faster than a human for some repetitious activities, but still zero real intelligence.

Sometimes I get the vibe that these people who are either touting AI as "the next big thing", or OTOH, who fear that AI will somehow take over the world and reduce humans to slaves, actually want it to be this way, so that they can deny the supernatural nature of the soul, and/or pretend that human intelligence and free will are just concepts fueled by the combination of organic materials and electrical impulses.  Once you've done this, you can demystify everything, and dismiss religion as just an adaptation to natural and temporal phenomena.

Just look at what is happening, with trying to find ways for autistic non-verbal priests to offer "Mass" without speaking, and to confer sacraments in the same way.  Even though it has nothing to do with autism, they've already come up with a Mass in American Sign Language, where words are not used, even for the "consecration".

While high-functioning autism, such as Asperger Syndrome, can actually be viewed as a "superpower" of sorts, and a way to focus and channel genius into excellence in narrowly defined fields of endeavor, a priest who cannot speak, or who has some grave mental dysfunction, would simply have been irregular for ordination in the pre-Vatican II Church.  I guess Newchurch is so hard up for vocations, that they're willing to ordain any man who displays some kind of tenacity in pursuing a priestly vocation... unless, of course, he calls attention to the huge problems with Vatican II and the Novus Ordo, and wishes to offer the TLM.

Got to wonder if St Thomas Aquinas, in today's world, would have been labeled as autistic or Asperger, we're talking about one finely honed, laser-sharp mind there.  I have a pet theory that much of this modern trend to tag everyone who is somewhat eccentric as autistic, is a bid to dismiss such people as having an intellectual disability, which means they couldn't possibly have anything to say, that anyone should take seriously.

Funny, someone who has a one-track mind, where achieving excellence in sports or making money, is universally admired, and nobody ever questions whether they might be a little autistic.  All about the Benjamins.

Sometimes I get the vibe that these people who are either touting AI as "the next big thing", or OTOH, who fear that AI will somehow take over the world and reduce humans to slaves, actually want it to be this way, so that they can deny the supernatural nature of the soul, and/or pretend that human intelligence and free will are just concepts fueled by the combination of organic materials and electrical impulses.  Once you've done this, you can demystify everything, and dismiss religion as just an adaptation to natural and temporal phenomena.

That's precisely what they're doing.  They're trying to get people to believe that true intelligence and even self-awareness can be created from purely material causes, thereby salvaging the atheistic evolution agenda.

That's precisely what they're doing.

Except it's really not. They are using these algorithmic models (AI) to create better weapons, as Soubirous helpfully points out:

The woke whiners a few years back went nuts over algorithmic preemptive criminal profiling, complaining that it caused law enforcement and the financial sector to harass unfairly the usual suspects. Yet what's to stop these algorithm writers from going after us instead on an even more widespread basis than they already are? The CCP did put this into practice not so long ago.

These models can produce results and are being actively developed all of the time. Isn't it funny that you downplay the threat of Russia and China while hyping non-threats (see: Marburg) and downplaying actual threats? AI isn't true artificial intelligence, but it can be a "force multiplier" in support of nefarious purposes. It isn't hard to understand.

Except it's really not. They are using these algorithmic models (AI) to create better weapons, as Soubirous helpfully points out:
These models can produce results and are being actively developed all of the time. Isn't it funny that you downplay the threat of Russia and China while hyping non-threats (see: Marburg) and downplaying actual threats? AI isn't true artificial intelligence, but it can be a "force multiplier" in support of nefarious purposes. It isn't hard to understand.

Except for the whole system to work, some minimum percentage of those less sophisticated human beings who are considerably downstream from the puppet-master tech lords need to grant legitimacy to the output of dumb machines programmed by those same tech lords. Disinformation does have its goals.